Petropolis: The Center for Petroglyph Studies

The Workshop on Petroglyphs

The workshop will assess

associated with petroglyphs in the Lake Onega and in the White Sea.

Further, it will ask:

what should this science be?
and how can it be improved?
what is the role of science in this education?
Petroglyphs as an extension of the academic classroom will also be covered.
And finally the workshop will study the constraints to establish Petropolis:The Center for Petroglyph Studies in Petrozavodsk, Russia.

The role of NG0s in educational values of petroglyph watching will be examined.

Organisers:

Eugeny Ieshko/Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Petrozavodsk, Russia
Yury Savvateev/Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History, Karelian Research Centre, RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Nadezhda Mikhailova/Karelian Research Centre, RAS, Foreign Contacts, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Nadezhda Lobanova/Center for the Protection and Management of Historical Monuments, Ministry of Culture, Russia
Rauno Lauhakangas/Finnish Literature Society, The Folklore Archive, Helsinki, Finland
Matti Reinikainen/Finnish Literature Society, The Folklore Archive, Helsinki, Finland

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